Q6600 + BF3 + GPU Usage question.

[ToejaM]

Not looked at any other games but even in SWTOR my GPU usage isnt set to 99% so not going into that heh.

L4D2 is obviously running flawlessly without maxing the GPU.

Its purely BF3 thats the issue, as its not using the full GPU and as such getting 40-80fps where as his gpu is similar to mine and i rarely drop below 60 and only in the problem areas on karkland maps tbh

Just a little frustrating that such a well clocked cpu is struggling because it needs more cores

 

[Deception]

My nephew uses a Q6600 @3.2ghz and a 5850. He seems to be playing fine, but I will ask him what his GPU useage is etc within the game and what settings.

 

[realscot]

I noticed no difference on a single card with my Q6600 @ 3.8 and my 2500k @ 4.5 but when I enabled xfire (tri fire in my case) the Q6600 was a big bottleneck compared with the Sandy.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Running BF3 with a Q6600 @ 3.6GHz, HD5870 and 4GB of PC2-6400 running at the stated 800MHz.

No problems here..

 

[ToejaM]

My nephew uses a Q6600 @3.2ghz and a 5850. He seems to be playing fine, but I will ask him what his GPU useage is etc within the game and what settings.

That'd be great mate, I think the 5850 is similarly on par with the 470 and only a minor downgrade for the 5870 right? My brothers is running all on high, AF X16, everything else off and no AA if that helps.

I noticed no difference on a single card with my Q6600 @ 3.8 and my 2500k @ 4.5 but when I enabled xfire (tri fire in my case) the Q6600 was a big bottleneck compared with the Sandy.

Yeah had the same problem running crossfire 4870s on his dual core with BF3, was only getting 40-50gpu usage in this case and a huge fps drop.. sometimes 1fps.. average 20 but randomly would be about 50.. worked out better to have CF disabled but this was a while ago, the new CAPs may fix that but I'll never know now as I sold them on and replaced with a 470

Running BF3 with a Q6600 @ 3.6GHz, HD5870 and 4GB of PC2-6400 running at the stated 800MHz.

No problems here..

This maybe a massive ask of you bud but.. as you're amazing and all the girls (or guys if thats your thing) love you.. could you give a little love back and do a couple of tests?

Literally to find out if you're using full GPU its instant to notice if its choppy.. I'll post a screenie once I've put this new ram in shortly and have a quick go on it.. right from the spawn it gives me this "problem"

I dont quite think it matters on settings but it'd be interesting to see what you're running at.

As for the tests, could you try your cpu on stock for me and see what happens GPU usage wise? It'd be interesting to know at what speed causes the GPU to goto 99usage. I'm assuming yours is running fluently on 99 with no spikes?

Edit: oh and cpu usage if no, then np

 

[ToejaM]

Thats about 4 minutes of playing bf3 (obviously where the gpu usage starts to change) so as you can see doesn't need to be a long test heh.

I tried it with Vsync on and it was the same, I thought maybe with it only aiming for 60fps it might not need as much CPU power but clearly I was wrong.

Sometimes dropped to 30fps with noticeable stutters.. sometimes was sitting comfortably at 80fps and just as I was about to exit, where I stopped was getting over 100fps. I dont think my brother really notices so its not a huge problem but its winding me right up.. I want the most out of what there is!

Good job it has over 4gig in now tbh, I ninja installed the extra 4gig so I'll see if he notices any difference.. was definately cutting it close.. maybe after a longer game the ram usage will be a lot higher but who knows. Last night for me playing SWTOR I was sitting on 4.5gb of usage with nothing but the game and essentials open, even the AV was disabled! Was nearing 5gb with a few websites open.